Dizzy Gillespie

Dizzy Gillespie

Dizzy GillespieJohn Birks "Dizzy" Gillespie (pronounced /ɡɨˈlɛspi/; October 21, 1917 – January 6, 1993) was an American jazz trumpet player, bandleader, singer, and composer dubbed "the sound of surprise".

Together with Charlie Parker, he was a major figure in the development of bebop and modern jazz. He taught and influenced many other musicians, including trumpeters Miles Davis, Fats Navarro, Clifford Brown, Arturo Sandoval, Lee Morgan, Jon Faddis and Chuck Mangione.
Allmusic's Scott Yanow wrote that "Dizzy Gillespie's contributions to jazz were huge. One of the greatest jazz trumpeters of all time (some would say the best), Gillespie was such a complex player that his contemporaries ended up copying Miles Davis and Fats Navarro instead, and it was not until Jon Faddis's emergence in the 1970s that Dizzy's style was successfully recreated . . . Arguably Gillespie is remembered, by both critics and fans alike, as one of the greatest jazz trumpeters of all time.
In addition to featuring in the epochal moments in bebop, he was instrumental in founding Afro-Cuban jazz, the modern jazz version of what early-jazz pioneer Jelly Roll Morton referred to as the "Spanish Tinge". Gillespie was a trumpet virtuoso and gifted improviser, building on the virtuoso style of Roy Eldridge but adding layers of harmonic complexity previously unknown in jazz. Dizzy's beret and horn-rimmed spectacles, his scat singing, his bent horn, pouched cheeks and his light-hearted personality were essential in popularizing bebop.

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Total 94 sheet(s) found, listing between 0 - 20.
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A night in Tunisia pianochick88 (9)
4649d ago
4 Piano, Trumpet Book
Tin Tin Deo bmajed (4)
4974d ago
2 Piano, Guitar, Trumpet, Bass Book
Tin Tin Deo lesreid (2)
4975d ago
1 Guitar Other
Con Alma zsierzega (7)
4988d ago
1 Piano, Guitar, Trumpet Book
Manteca grenha (43)
4990d ago
26 Piano, Drum, Guitar, Trumpet, Saxophone, Horn, Bass, Trombone Other
A Night in Tunisia LUC41 (39)
4993d ago
1 Saxophone Original
Night in Tunesia wendelcarolyn (1)
5009d ago
1 Piano, Bass Book
Dizzy Atmosphere miglet (82)
5011d ago
1 Piano, Guitar, Trumpet Transcription
Salt Peanuts Ellinna (747)
5017d ago
1 Piano, Horn Original
Manteca Ellinna (747)
5017d ago
1 Piano, Horn Original
a night satb tlcinc (31)
5021d ago
11 Piano, Vocal, Bass Original
A Night in Tunisia FalseBreath (1)
5022d ago
1 Piano, Guitar, Trumpet, Saxophone Transcription
I Wanted For You Ellinna (747)
5024d ago
1 Piano, Horn Original
Groovin High Ellinna (747)
5024d ago
1 Piano, Horn Original
Dizzy Atmosphere Ellinna (747)
5025d ago
1 Piano, Horn Original
Con Alma Ellinna (747)
5025d ago
1 Piano, Horn Original
The champ Ellinna (747)
5025d ago
1 Piano, Horn Original
Blue'n boogie Ellinna (747)
5025d ago
1 Piano, Horn Original
Birks works Ellinna (747)
5025d ago
1 Piano Original
Be-bop Ellinna (747)
5025d ago
1 Piano Original